Chief Economist & Political Strategist, CrossASEAN Research

Prasenjit K. Basu

PK Basu has 34 years experience covering Asia's economies and markets (equities, fixed income and currencies), including 20 years covering the global economy. He was Chief Economist (SE Asia & India) at Credit Suisse First Boston for 5 years, and Chief Asia (x-Jpn) Economist at Daiwa Securities for a similar period. Among other roles, he was global head of research at Maybank Kim Eng, Malaysia equity research head and chief ASEAN economist at Macquarie, Chief Economist at ICICI Securities, ASEAN economist at UBS and the first chief economist at Khazanah Nasional (where he was co-head of research, and led all agri-business initiatives). PK Basu started his career in the Asia Service of WEFA (Wharton Econometrics) in Philadelphia in 1990, rising to be Director of their Asia Service in June 1994. 
PK's book, "Asia Reborn: A continent rises from the ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism" won the Tata Literature First Book Award (non-fiction) for 2018. It is the first single chronicle of the modern economic and political history of the whole of Asia (from Iraq and Turkey to Korea and Japan, and everything in between), told from an Asian perspective.

Chief Economist & Political Strategist

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REAL-Economics.com

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<p>(As a mark of respect and solidarity with those killed and injured in London on 22 March, I have delayed this note by 24 hours. My sincere condolences to the UK's people for the horrific terrorist outrage at Westminster).</p><p>Martin McGuinness, the former commander of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who became a sentinel of peace in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement (brokered by Bill Clinton in 1998) and served as Deputy First Minister there for a decade, did not live to see a reunited…</p>

(As a mark of respect and solidarity with those killed and injured in London on 22 March, I have delayed this note by 24 hours. My sincere condolences to the UK's people for the horrific terrorist outrage at Westminster).Martin McGuinness, the former commander of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who became a sentinel of peace in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement (brokered by Bill Clinton in 1998) and served as Deputy First Minister there for a decade, did not live to see a reunited…

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI LN)

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust (HAST LN)

Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE LN)

Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC (SST LN)

Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC

Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust PLC (BGCG LN)

HarbourVest Global Private Equity Ltd (HVPE LN)

Not Just Scotland: McGuinness, Brexit and the Dismantling of the United Kingdom